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Zyana vs Zyanya

American parents have registered 1,049 Zyanas since 1880, against 600 Zyanyas. Zyana is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyana against Zyanya, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyana Zyanya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 36 years in which either name was published, Zyana for 22 years and Zyanya for 14 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Zyana Zyanya
Total US births 1,049600
Most in one year 10633
Babies in 2025 4620
Estimated living today 1,000600
Median age today 912
Peak year 20142019
Best rank 1,892nd girls4,260th girls
Rank in 2025 3,342nd5,917th
First recorded 19991986
Girls / boys 1,049 / 0600 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zyanyas alive today are over 12; half the Zyanas are over 9. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zyana and Zyanya.